What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

if you don't play with relations and respect to love you may get hurt And spend life in pain but you will die in rest.

Just say no to negative energy.

Like a speeding trainI am passing by...I don’t knowwhere I’m headingwith whom or whyall I know is thatI will never, everpass from here againall I know is I’m skidding forwardon this track of life.

Whether you practice a traditional religion or a universal version of spirituality, it is necessary to keep an open mind for learning and growing.

Goodbye, everybody! (Suicide note)

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

She's stark raving mad!

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience